Gammons getting better

[mtbykr]

I haven't seen this posted yet. Get well soon gammo, baseball misses you!

 

http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/sports/gammonsback9.htm

 

 

 

ESPN baseball analyst and Hall of Fame baseball writer Peter Gammons saw his first live baseball game in quite a while yesterday, taking in a few innings of Game 1 of the Cape League's West Division playoffs at Lowell Park.

 

Gammons, a huge fan of the Cape League, suffered a brain aneurysm June 27 at his home on the Cape and last saw a game in person June 25, when he worked ESPN's Sunday Night Game in Chicago.

 

Gammons is best known around New England as the former Boston Globe baseball writer who penned a voluminous and highly informative Sunday baseball notes column. He is home after after emergency surgery in Boston and a stint in a rehabilitation center.

 

He was in his element back around baseball at Lowell Park, chatting with Cotuit manager Mike Roberts near the dugout before the game. Roberts is the father of Baltimore Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts. As always, Gammons was a wealth of stories about the league and its players, talking about a Barry Zito-Mark Mulder matchup in 1997 and some other memorable highlights.

 

''I'm feeling better but it will be awhile (before he gets back to work),'' said Gammons before the game. ''It's great to see baseball again and what better place. I was telling Mike Roberts my favorite player here was Josh Paul (1995 league MVP and batting champion for Kettleers' championship team). He played the right way, took batting practice the right way, ran the bases the right way. That's why he has six or seven years in in the majors and will be a manager someday. I remember Eric Byrnes practicing crashing into walls.''

 

The ever-popular Gammons received a big ovation when he was introduced before the game.

 

- RUSS CHARPENTIER

[BoSox34]

Great news.

[DUSTINMOHR4LIFE]

good stuff

[yeszir]

Wow, I totally missed this. Glad to hear it.